13-letter words containing m, a, r, y, u
- marcus garvey — Marcus (Moziah) [moh-zahy-uh] /moʊˈzaɪ ə/ (Show IPA), 1887–1940, Jamaican black-rights activist in the U.S. (1916–27): advocated emigration of black Americans to Africa.
- matriculatory — relating to matriculation
- mayor's court — a city court presided over by a mayor.
- measurability — capable of being measured.
- medullary ray — (in the stems of woody plants) one of the vertical bands or plates of unspecialized tissue that radiate between the pith and the bark.
- mensurability — The quality of being mensurable.
- merleau-ponty — Maurice, 1908–61, French phenomenological philosopher.
- microaneurysm — An extremely small aneurysm.
- midsummer day — the saint's day of St. John the Baptist, celebrated on June 24, being one of the four quarter days in England.
- military coup — a coup organized and carried out by members of the armed forces
- molly maguire — Irish History. a member of a secret terrorist society organized in Ireland in 1843 to prevent evictions by the government: so called because the members disguised themselves as women.
- monetary unit — the standard unit of value of the currency of a country, as the dollar in the U.S. and the franc in France.
- monkey around — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
- mountebankery — The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
- multicategory — (mathematics) A generalization of the concept of category that allows morphisms of multiple arity.
- multiliteracy — The ability to be literate in terms of text in media other than paper.
- multipartyism — a political system in which two or more political parties contest elections
- multipolarity — The condition of being multipolar.
- musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
- mycobacterium — A bacterium of a group that includes the causative agents of leprosy and tuberculosis.
- non-customary — according to or depending on custom; usual; habitual.
- nonambulatory — of, relating to, or capable of walking: an ambulatory exploration of the countryside.
- on your marks — On your marks in British English, or on your mark in American English, is a command given to runners at the beginning of a race in order to get them into the correct position to start.
- paramyxovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses that are similar to but larger than the myxoviruses, including the viruses that cause mumps, measles, parainfluenza, and Newcastle disease.
- polyoma virus — a small DNA-containing virus, of the papovavirus group, that can produce a variety of tumors in mice, hamsters, rabbits, and rats.
- primary group — a group of individuals living in close, intimate, and personal relationship.
- quantity mark — a mark that is placed above a vowel or syllable to indicate its duration or length
- quarrelsomely — In a quarrelsome manner.
- quasimilitary — Having certain military aspects.
- quaterpolymer — A copolymer derived from four species of monomer.
- rhythm guitar — a guitar used to provide rhythm, particularly during a musical ensemble
- rudimentarily — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- sample survey — a survey of particular examples of sth, intended as representative of the whole category
- scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
- spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
- summer savory — See under savory2 .
- sumptuary law — a law regulating personal habits that offend the moral or religious beliefs of the community.
- supermajority — a majority that must represent some percentage more than a simple majority.
- supernumerary — being in excess of the usual, proper, or prescribed number; additional; extra.
- supplementary — Also, supplemental. of the nature of or forming a supplement; additional.
- temerariously — in an audacious manner
- tetradynamous — having four long and two short stamens, as a cruciferous flower.
- thaumatolatry — the worship of or excessive admiration for marvels and miracles
- traumatically — of, relating to, or produced by a trauma or wound.
- traumatonasty — a nastic movement in response to an injury
- trust company — a company or corporation organized to exercise the functions of a trustee, but usually engaging also in other banking and financial activities.
- ugly american — An Ugly American is an American who travels to a foreign country and gives the United States a bad reputation by acting in an offensive way.
- uncomfortably — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.